How to add a category to Magento via Setup script?

Question

I actually can add a category via setup script, the thing is for some reason some of the fields doesn\'t get set properly. Here\'s is my code

$this->start         


        

Answer 1

Try this

<?php
require_once "../app/Mage.php";
umask(0);
Mage::app('default');
$proxy  = new SoapClient("http://127.0.0.1/magento/index.php/api/soap/?wsdl");
$sessionId  = $proxy->login($magento_webservices_username,  $magento_webservices_passwd);

$data = array('name'=>'Nokia',
            'description'=>'',
            'meta_description'=>'',
            'meta_keywords'=>'',
            'default_sort_by'=>'price',
            'available_sort_by'=>'price',
            'is_active'=>1
);
$newCategoryId = $proxy->call($sessionId, 'category.create', array(3, $data, 1));
echo "Category ID: ".$newCategoryId;

?>

And also have a look Magento create category

Answer 2

Take a look at this. Hope it will help you.
http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/how-to-add-new-custom-category-attribute-in-magento/

Answer 3

I have created multiple categories via installer script.

<?php
$installer = $this;
$installer->startSetup();

Mage::register('isSecureArea', 1);

$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');
$category->setPath('1/2/4') // set parent to be root category
->setName('CAT NAME') //Category Name
->setIsActive(1) // Category Status
->setIncludeInMenu(1) // Show in Menu
->setIsAnchor(1) // used for Layered navigation
->setDisplayMode('PAGE') //  Product Only
->setPageLayout('one_column') // Page layout
->save();

$installer->endSetup();

Answer 4

I finally found it, I'm not sure why but those fields are not showing up properly because they were inserted for the default store (storeId=1) because my script is running in an update script. You need to use the storeId 0.

With this information you would think that the solution would be something like :

$this->startSetup();
Mage::register('isSecureArea', 1);

Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);

$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');
$category->setPath('1/2') // set parent to be root category
    ->setStoreId(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID)
    ->setName('Category Name')
    ...
    ->save();
$this->endSetup();

But this code doesn't work either. Indeed after looking into Mage::app() (Mage_Core_Model_App Line 804) I noticed a IF condition that would always return the default store if you're in a setup script.

The trick is to fake that you're not in a setup script, my working solution is:

$this->startSetup();
Mage::register('isSecureArea', 1);

// Force the store to be admin
Mage::app()->setUpdateMode(false);
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);

$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');
$category->setPath('1/2') // set parent to be root category
    ->setStoreId(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID)
    ->setName('Category Name')
    ...
    ->save();
$this->endSetup();

Answer 5

I ran into the same issue when updating a category via a data install script. The solution provided in the accepted answer did work for updating the category, but can be improved upon as follows:

• In the solution, the user that triggers the update script is forced to the admin environment. This can be remedied by saving the current store id and switching back at end of the script.
• It doesn't seem that adding isSecureArea to the registry or disabling update mode had any use (at least for the use case of updating a category).

I ended up with the following data install script for updating a category (in this example, a category is loaded by name, after which the name is updated):

<?php
    $this->startSetup();

    //Switch to admin store (workaround to successfully save a category)
    $originalStoreId = Mage::app()->getStore()->getId();
    Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);

    //update category
    $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')
        ->loadByAttribute('name', 'OLD_CATEGORY_NAME');
    if ($category) {
        $category
            ->setStoreId(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID)
            ->setName('NEW_CATEGORY_NAME')
            ->save();
    }

    //Set store to original value
    Mage::app()->setCurrentStore($originalStoreId);

    $this->endSetup();
?>